Tending Neurospora: David Perkins, 1919–2007, and Dorothy Newmeyer Perkins, 1922–2007

9.2.4 Sports E59 Perkins

A stumbling point for many learning to fly fish is being able to fly cast well enough to ‘present’ a fly to a feeding fish. Even among more skilled fly fishers, learning to fly cast better is often a bottleneck towards advancement in the sport. Fly casting instruction today relies on the visual inspection of the fly casting stroke and the resulting ‘loop’ of fly line. These qualitative visual c...

Elisha Perkins and His Metallic Tractors

Hocus! pocus! up and down! Draw the white right from the crown! Hocus! pocus! at a loss! Draw the brazen rod across! Hocus! pocus! down and up! Draw them both from foot to top! Wooden nutmegs and counterfeit money are not the only frauds that have had their origin in Connecticut. To the members of the medical profession Perkins' Metallic Tractors are of the most interest. immediately began the ...

Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Clarify the Interrelationships among Perkins Ii Mandates and the Coordination of Perkins Ii Initiatives

This research suggests specific actions federal policymakers should take to improve the implementation of Perkins II measures and standards. Although our case studies were limited to four states, both our informal conversations with other vocational educators and previous research on the implementation of Perkins II measures and standards suggest that these concerns are widespread enough to war...

Introduction: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Sociological Perspective on Ethics and Society

Then, being nothing if not practical, they set their keen and active minds to discover the kind of conduct expected of them. This worked out in a most admirable system of ethics. Social Ethics: Sociology and the Future of Society provides a complex yet accessible statement of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's mature sociological theory of ethical life. Her perspective is welded intellectually to socio...